I began working on this web site when I downloaded the free Yahoo! SiteBuilder program. This was in late August (2004). I will be paying about 12 dollars per month for the web-hosting service; ($11.95 -- to be exact).

Of course, I have great expectations for what I might be able to accomplish, but any visitor to my site will have to be patient. It is "a work in progress." I will be making "paths that lead half-way into the void" (as a song lyric once said). I will have entries that don't link to anything, and links that might take you to a page with nothing on it.

One thing that bothers me with other people's web sites is that there are not enough links, or they are too hard to find. I will try to err in the opposite direction. I shouldn't be bothered if people complain about "too many" links.

Regarding the text size: You can go to "VIEW" > "TEXT SIZE," from the top toolbar. There are five choices, from largest to smallest. I keep my browser on the "Largest" setting. Another one of my complaints is that the text size is often too small, so I will try to err on the size of making it bigger than some people might like.

Unfortunately, this adjustment doesn't work in many cases. Try changing back and forth from largest to smallest, and see what happens (on ANY web page). Sometimes nothing at all changes, and sometimes only a few lines change size.

Another problem is that books on web design tell us that you can't control how somebody will see your pages in their browser. Depending on their settings, and depending on any number of factors, your well laid out page might be seen with parts of it scrambled all over the place.

The Yahoo! SiteBuilder gives us a feature called "preview in browser," so we can see how it will look. Generally, it looks right, (except that somehow one of my type sizes -- 36 point -- doesn't translate correctly).

In any case, ALL of my links work, when I go to "preview in browser." The VIEW > TEXT SIZE feature doesn't work, but maybe then you'll get to see it as I wrote it !

The only thing I can see that changes is the word "options" on the Yahoo! search boxes in the lower right-hand corner of the page.

There is another size adjustment that the reader might not be aware of. This involves the text size on items which are called the "Display." There are several ways to reach the control for this.

Click on "start," and go to "Control Panel." Then choose "Appearance and Themes." Now you have two choices. You can pick either "Display," or "Change the Screen Resolution." A box pops up which says "Display Properties." Click on the tab that says "Appearance." At the bottom it will say "font size." Click on the down arrow, and it will give you 3 choices. I have chosen the "Extra Large Fonts." (Then click "OK").

Another way to reach this same dialog box is to go from "start" to the name at the top of the short programs menu. Click on the picture or icon next to the name. This brings you to a box called "User Accounts." Then, under "Related Tasks," choose "Change the computer theme." Now you have reached the "Display Properties" box, and you should proceed as described above.

There is one more trick, which I hesitate to mention. On the "Control Panel" there is a handicapped symbol, with the words "Accessibility Options." Don't go there ! I got into a little trouble, and I had to do something called a "System Restore." As Barney Fife would say: It's as if somebody went to the old folks home, and waxed the steps ! I hope to get this problem figured out someday, but for now I will just leave well enough alone.

But don't worry, otherwise. I had no catastrophic problems with anything else I did on the computer.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Actually, I can make the pages as long as I want, but go to page two, anyhow.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE:You'll notice that, on this web site, I claim "copyright" on things I write. This is not meant to scare anyone. Feel free to copy and distribute anything you want, just as long youGIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.I want to get the proper credit for whatever I write, and I want everyone else to get credit for what THEY write. COPYRIGHT is a very complicated legal issue, for which I would need legal representation beyond what I can afford at the moment, in order to fully understand it or fully explain it. In any case, a copyright notice such as this is just a standard "boiler plate" thing you are supposed to attach to whatever you write. It is not meant to stop ordinary people from using my work in ordinary ways, but just in case somebody thinks they can make a million dollars off of something I wrote, without cutting ME in for "A Piece of the Action."

Everything on this web site is COPYRIGHT (c) ERIC HAUBERT (MASSILLON, OHIO)unless it belongs to somebody else.